Despite the city's best efforts, and a whole lot of patience, some streets are still dealing with what looks like a mass exodus.

Mattresses, chairs, bed frames, dressers, broken drawers from dressers, sofas, and stackable plastic storage bins - some with toiletries such as aerosol shaving cream still left inside - sat on curbs in the Sixth Ward, on side streets off Easton Avenue near the Rutgers University College Avenue campus this week.

Smaller mounds were also left outside apartments houses blocks away, near the Cook and Douglas campuses.

As city sanitation workers went through the neighborhoods, U-Haul rental trucks sat outside off-campus apartment houses where parents and friends helped the students haul their stuff out.

The Class of 2018 joins a tried-and-true tradition of generating a ton of stuff, all of which has to go very quickly to make room for the next round of students to occupy these off-campus homes.

In response, each year city officials try reducing the level of discarded items through "Project Move Out," a period when students can sign-up to have large items picked-up.

“The purpose of Project Move Out is to provide bulk pick-up and avoid a lot of those piles,” said city spokeswoman Jennifer Bradshaw.

“We had a lot of registrants this year,” she added.

This year, students in off-campus apartments had bulk items, including furniture, appliances, textiles, and electronic items, picked up May 23-25 during the flurry of graduation events.

Students had to register for pick-ups by May 22. Once registered, the students were given a date for a collection and could only put items out after 5 p.m. the day before.

This year, 482 people registered for pick-ups.

The city recycles items or transfers them for beneficial reuse when possible to reduce the amount going to a landfill.

Students who improperly dispose of their discarded property in violation of municipal ordinances face the possibility of fines ranging from $500 too $2,000.

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